Welcome to the forum. Nice folks hang out here. To cool the fermenter a bit, you might try the wet t-shirt trick or putting the carboy in a large bucket of cold water for the first 48-72 hours at least.

Welcome to the forum. Nice folks hang out here. To cool the fermenter a bit, you might try the wet t-shirt trick or putting the carboy in a large bucket of cold water for the first 48-72 hours at least.

nice idea timberati, didn´t realize that,... right know, im brewing my witbier so late in the night but dont matter what im getting this tips so well...

here they are my two batches right now, at left i got the recently made Witbier and the Pale Ale, 65 IBU very hoppy...cause a very sticky floor days ago.

I guess you learned about the need for lots of headspace in the primary fermenter when brewing a hoppy beer!

In the future, you can prevent that problem with a blow-off fermenter. Replace your airlock with a tube of sufficient diameter to fit into the neck of your carboy. On the other end, the tube should empty into a jug of sanitizer.

Seriously?! Hoppy beers blow off more? That would explain why I had yet another unexpected blowout, and in my new fermentation fridge to boot. Grrr. Six gallons of APA (infused with black pepper!) in a 7.5 gallon carboy fitted with an airlock because I thought that would be enough headspace. Now actively spitting goop through a hastily fitted blow-off tube on day 3 of fermentation.

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Seriously?! Hoppy beers blow off more? That would explain why I had yet another unexpected blowout, and in my new fermentation fridge to boot. Grrr. Six gallons of APA (infused with black pepper!) in a 7.5 gallon carboy fitted with an airlock because I thought that would be enough headspace. Now actively spitting goop through a hastily fitted blow-off tube on day 3 of fermentation.

The APA was only 17 IBU, the previous IPA that also surprised me with a blow off (6.5 gallons in a 7.5 gallon carboy) was 49 IBU.

I don't normally bother calculating IBUs for an APA, and that 17 IBU seems low to me. For the base recipe, I used a recipe-of-the-week from the AHA website, "Lara Pale Ale", that apparently won gold in 2008 and 2009 for APA. I wonder if the recipe has a typo?

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well, after two days in the bottle i cannot resist to open a bottle to have a taste ( inconvenience of bottling.....patience!!) haha. malty, very good aromas and taste great, not to hoppy as i expect but good...Saaz at the end,, i love this hopnothing citrusy or pineymade from leftovers hops